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Honeycomb Documentation Overview

New to Honeycomb? Check out our live demo!

Already have an account? Scroll down for help instrumenting your app, or learn more about how to use Honeycomb with our Quick Start walkthrough.

Want to know more about Honeycomb’s capabilities? Here’s how we compare to other tools. Or if you want to talk, drop us a message via chat or an email at support@honeycomb.io, we’d love to hear from you!

Automatic Instrumentation with Beelines

Beelines let you start using Honeycomb by adding just a few lines to your code. They understand a wide range of standard packages and popular frameworks in various ecosystems, and automatically instrument them to send useful events to Honeycomb.

Beeline for Go
Automatic instrumentation for Go apps. Optional support for Gorilla, Goji, net/http, sqlx, and more. Now with tracing!
Beeline for Python
Automatic instrumentation for Django-, Flask-, Tornado-, or Bottle-based apps.
Ruby
Automatic instrumentation for Rails & other Rack-based apps. Optional support for ActiveRecord, Sequel, Faraday, and more.
Beeline for NodeJS
Automatic instrumentation of Express apps. Optional support for mysql2, sequelize, mpromise, mongoose, and more.

Other Integrations and SDKs

(Note: not a list of “supported software”. The Honeycomb API supports JSON, not software.)

NGINX
Ingest and parse NGINX logs, with configuration instructions and tips.
Apache
Ingest and parse Apache logs with our agent.
HAProxy
Ingest and parse HAProxy logs with our agent.
AWS ELB
Ingest and parse AWS Elastic Load Balancer access logs.
MongoDB
Utilize a range of techniques to get the most comprehensive view into your Mongo cluster, ever.
MySQL
Ingest and parse MySQL traffic, on your own machines or on RDS.
PostgreSQL
Parse and analyze PostgreSQL traffic, on your own machines or on RDS.
Kubernetes
Easily aggregate events across your cluster.
Logstash
Connect to your logstash pipelines or fork existing output.
Heka
Connect to your Heka pipelines or fork existing output.
Logspout
Capture JSON output from Docker containers with Logspout.
Fluentd
Plug in to Fluentd as a new output option.
JSON Logs
It's all just JSON. Use our agent to ingest and/or backfill from JSON logs.
http
Use our JSON-over-HTTP API directly.
Golang
See multiple examples of our flagship SDK in action.
Java
Use our Java SDK to instrument your code directly.
JavaScript
Use our JavaScript SDK for custom instrumentation, for Node or client-side apps.
Python
Use our Python SDK for maximum control over your app's instrumentation.
Ruby
Use our Ruby SDK for ultimate flexibility in instrumenting your app.
Rails
Our Rails integration supports Rails 3 apps. Use the Ruby Beeline for Rails 4+ & Rack apps.
OpenCensus
Use our exporter in your OpenCensus setup
OpenTracing
Run our proxy to collect tracing data